“I am convinced that we need to“ shuffle the cards very carefully, establishing an honest and demanding dialogue with Russia, ”the head of state quoted Interfax as saying.
As noted by Macron, this is necessary to build a pan-European strategy regarding Russia.
He also said that the Foreign Ministers and the Ministry of Defense of France, Jean-Yves Le Drian and Florence Parley, will pay an official visit to Moscow, where they will hold talks in the “2 + 2” format.
On August 22, Ukrainian diplomat Roman Bezsmertny called the meeting of Russian and French leaders Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron a funeral procession for sanctions.
As the French deputy Fabien Roussel emphasized, the EU should “take a course” on lifting sanctions against Russia.